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Location

Los Angeles, CA

Biography

Shilpi grew up in North Carolina, the child of Indian immigrants. She has an everlasting love of green grass, a slow, relaxed pace of life, and the quirky, delightful Southerners with whom she spent her childhood.

After becoming valedictorian of her high school, and graduating from the prestigious International Baccalaureate Program, she went on to Vanderbilt University where she was awarded the Chancellor’s Scholarship while majoring in Psychology and Economics, with a Film Studies minor.

It was in her senior year at Vanderbilt that Shilpi realized that film is her lifelong dream. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles and became a producer’s assistant for Warren Littlefield, the former president of NBC. She also had the opportunity to work with industry giants such as Joel Wyman (writer of The Mexican) and Thomas Carter (director of Save the Last Dance).

After working for a year, Shilpi decided to pursue a directing career and came to the USC School of Cinematic Arts for an MFA in Production. While there, Shilpi was awarded the extremely prestigious Annenberg Fellowship. Shilpi’s award-winning thesis film The Indian & the Samurai has played at festivals around the world and is still on its film festival run. She has worked as an editor at Robert Greenwald’s non-profit company Brave New Films, where she helped to combat social injustice on a daily basis, and is currently working at Playboy TV as a website manager for their new hulu-like website playboy.tv. Shilpi was in Film Independent’s Project: Involve Class of 2010, where she met and collaborated with highly skilled filmmakers like herself. Shilpi also works as a freelance director/editor.

Shilpi hopes that her first feature project Samosas and Psalms will be able to go into production in 2012.

IMDB Page

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2755882/

Caucus Film

Film Title

The Indian and the Samurai

Film Website

www.indiansamuraimovie.com

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